When I got married, I knew that my husband didn’t like Chinese food. On the other hand, I love it. I like to follow Bobby at Blog Chef. This site really specializes in Chinese food at home. I couldn’t resist giving some of the recipes a try like this Mandarin Chicken. The thing is, my husband has enjoyed every single Chinese dish I have made from this site.

Now granted, I know that there are some dishes my husband would never eat. I have made sweet and sour chicken along with orange chicken and he ate them up. I knew when I saw Bobby’s recipe for mandarin chicken, I could get him to eat that too. It was delish and the whole family loved it.

With the weather being so nice right now in Utah, we cooked the chicken on our outdoor grill. I made 1 1/2 recipes to feed my family of 5. Next time, I think I’ll double the recipe so I can have some leftovers for lunch. It appears the best way for me to enjoy Chinese food is to make it myself.

Mandarin Chicken

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Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• ▢ ½ Tbsp sugar
• ▢ ½ tsp salt
• ▢ ¼ tsp garlic powder
• ▢ Mandarin Sauce-
• ▢ ⅔ cup sugar
• ▢ ¼ cup soy sauce
• ▢ 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• ▢ 1 tsp fresh garlic minced
• ▢ 1 tsp fresh ginger minced
• ▢ ¼ cup water
• ▢ 4 tsp cornstarch

Instructions

 

• Pound chicken breasts with a mallet to an even thickness and season both sides with sugar, salt, and garlic powder.
• Grill chicken 4-6 minutes on each side or until no longer pink inside. Remove from grill and cut into bite sized strips. Set aside.
• In a wok or sauce pan, combine sugar, soy sauce, lemon juice, garlic and ginger. Heat the mixture until almost at a boil. In a bowl, combine cornstarch and water. Once the sauce starts to boil add the cornstarch mixture and stir until thickened.
• Add grilled chicken to the wok/sauce pan and coat with the sauce. Simmer until heated thoroughly. I served it over cooked rice. Serves 4.

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This is the original photo from this post. The above photo was updated in July 2018.